It doesn't - but the comparison is about quality of the product versus market share and money. The MBAs put the 2nd first, the engineers the first. During the

It doesn't - but the comparison is about quality of the product versus market share and money. The MBAs put the 2nd first, the engineers the first. During the 2000s eBay increasingly focussed their business on the largest sellers, helping push the site from a many to many business to a more traditional fixed price eCommerce business. Along the way they forgot about the awesomeness of their tiny auction customers who liked the fun of both placing auctions and buying goods, and as a result the site 'lost it' for many. The right customer for eBay was not the big merchants but the masses.